Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states.

After the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980s, it is imprudent to allow institutions to take risks while leaving those that bear the losses without the means to control them.

Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover.

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

George L. Priest, John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School, delivered the sixth in AEI's 1995-1996 Bradley Lecture Series on February 12, 1996.

AEI's J.D. Kleinke examines the magnitude, symbolism, and likely impacts of the accounting rule included in the Accountable Care Act to regulate the administrative costs and profits of the health insurance industry.